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DREXEL UNIVERSITY BECOMES CRPC AFFILIATED SITE

The Symbolic Computing and Problem-Solving Environment (PSE) group at Philadelphia's Drexel University was recently named the sixth CRPC affiliated site. Mathematics and Computer Science Professor Bruce Char serves as affiliated site leader at Drexel (see "Parallel Profile," page 6).

Char has been collaborating with CRPC researchers and others from Caltech, Indiana University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico State University, and the University of California at Irvine on an NSF contract awarded in 1995 to study the problem of building PSEs, or integrated collections of software tools that facilitate problem solving in different domains. (See "Integration of Symbolic Computing with Frameworks of Classes and Problem-solving Archetypes," Winter 1996 Parallel Computing Research, page 11.) Led by CRPC Executive Committee member K. Mani Chandy of Caltech, the PSE project is focused on symbolic computation, user interfaces, and collaborative technologies for parallel object-oriented programming.

"One of our goals is to integrate existing tools like Maple and Mathematica to develop a machine toolkit for generating PSEs," says Chandy. "Bruce Char and the Drexel group have been key in developing Maple, and have worked extensively on translators from Maple to MATLAB and POOMA, a version of HPC++. Our affiliation with Drexel will enable us to gain maximum leverage from earlier work and generate parallel programs based on symbolic computation."


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